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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §34.3.27.pr

Legacy of Release for Empty Peculium and Legatee Status

Passage 5227 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

This text discusses whether a person who is bequeathed a release from a liability concerning a peculium is considered a legatee when the peculium is empty on the day the legacy vests, and whether his status remains in suspense.

[TRYPHONINUS libro octauo disputationum. ] §34.3.27.prUideamus, si ei, cum quo de peculio actio erit, liberatio testamento legata sit, an, si die, quo legata cedere solent, nihil in peculio sit, legatarii loco habetur? atquin nondum debitor fuit, nec procedit, ut emolumentum aliquid ex legato ad eum perueniat nisi propter spem futuri peculii.
[TRYPHONINUS in the eighth book of Disputations.] Let us consider whether, if a release has been bequeathed by testament to one against whom there will be an action concerning a peculium, he is held to be in the position of a legatee, if on the day on which legacies are accustomed to vest there is nothing in the peculium. And yet, he was not yet a debtor, nor does it happen that any benefit from the legacy reaches him except on account of the hope of a future peculium.
numquid ergo in pendenti sit, an legatarius fuerit, perinde atque si qua alia causa spem legati dubiam faceret?
Is it therefore in suspense whether he has been a legatee, just as if some other cause made the hope of the legacy doubtful?

Notes

  1. §34.3.27.prcum quo de peculio actio erit — Meaning 'against whom there will be an action concerning a peculium'. The antecedent is the preceding ei (dative), and cum quo consists of the relative pronoun qui in the ablative combined with the preposition cum.
  2. §34.3.27.prdie, quo legata cedere solent — dies cedit (the day a legacy vests) is a technical term in Roman law referring to the day on which the right to a legacy becomes fixed for the legatee (usually upon the testator's death). quo is a relative pronoun with the ablative of time die as its antecedent.
  3. §34.3.27.prnec procedit, ut... perueniat — procedit is used impersonally to mean 'to result' or 'to take place', with the subsequent ut clause functioning as a noun clause that serves as its subject.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §34.3.27.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:34.3.27.pr

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